Hello everyone,
I'm new here and this is my first post so i hope this is at the right place I've scrolled the forum (it's dense, i have a lot of reading to do !) before writing this.
There's a lot of technical stuff here and i hope i will understand the answer because i'm not highly qualified in this field

Here is something i have noticed lately with the Studio renderer : i used the slope 28192 in my model and when i wanted to get a photo render i imported my mpd file in studio. It was ok, except for the 28192 part which was sitting above its correct position, and in a 90° angle. It was positionned differently than in my model in all three directions indeed.

I got it right by going back in my model and modifying the position of the part with the same translation (that is putting it lower and -90°).

Wondering why it is doing this ?
and if other parts are affected and then it could eventually make Studio renderer difficult to use ? Is it something this community can dosomething about or you would simply recommand i use another renderer ?

Thanks,
Gaelle

Trying to pick up on some patterns I did some time ago and new ones for several dimension sets, first one the base set

71200 - LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack



LDR: 
  71200 - LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack - B.mpd (Size: 219.87 KB / Downloads: 22)
Not fully OMR compliant, only the stickers have been added to the file. Other unofficial parts are on the tracker.


71253 - Story Pack - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Hi. I am new to this aspect of the Lego hobby, although I have become familiar with MLCAD. I can't seem to find a part in its latest library, and I also can't find it on BrickLink. It is the companion piece for forklift part 4518a, necessary to attach the forklift to anything. It's apparently a 1x2 hinge plate. Has this part been modeled? If not, will any other part do in my MLCAD project? I'm using the forklift rails in an unconventional way; i.e. I'm not building a forklift. Any assistance is greatly appreciated

Since I can't get set 21054 here in North America until July 1st, I'd love if one of the "Rest of the World" folks would take me a high quality photo or scan of this part:
https://rebrickable.com/parts/3069bpr028...lag-print/

I drew a propeller model, because it's a three blade propeller, so the center of the model is no longer the center of the propeller. Can I rotate a certain angle in stl2dat? What should I do?

Glitches in both the image preview and the 3D render of https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c...092p01.dat


The preview shows thick yellowish lines around the edges of the texture images, and also has some odd vertical lines visible in the pits:
   

The 3D render is missing some textures entirely, and has distorted many of the others:
   

The above seems fairly consistent - I've forced a reload of the page, and tried in both Firefox and Edge, and I get the same results.

The draft of the Official Part Numbering Spec is done can can be found here:
https://www.ldraw.org/part-number-spec.html

This is a reorganized and reformatted version of this:
https://www.ldraw.org/library/tracker/ref/numberfaq/

Please read it over and make comments. I'm sure there are errors and clarifications that need to be made before I send it to the LSB for ratification. 

Note:
This doc is intended to be used in conjunction with:
https://www.ldraw.org/hidden-content/dra...brary.html
These rules would make that document too long and unwieldy.

Hi,

Today, I'd like to share a project I've been working on for a few years.

It is the idea of being able to describe lego models without the use of physical or digital lego, and in a way that is:

• Very close to English and not too unintuitive
  

• Has fast development time
  

• Is cross platform and highly accessable
  

• Is powerful enough to represent any possible combination of LEGO parts or building techniques
  

• Capable of being translated by a computer into a digital model (though this goal was originally part of a seperate "lego programming language" project)
  

• Flexable parts, hinges, etc are also possible
  

• Still makes the user learn about lego techniques
  

• Can be converted into native LDRAW script
  

Tried to auto-generate a flexible component (a 3-stud length ribbed hose) using LD Design Pad, and got a bad result. 

What did I do wrong?  

Thanks, 
Franklin

0 Begin Flex Object
1 16 7.5 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 0 0 0 0 1 79.dat
1 16 56.61 9.71 0 -0.383 0.924 0 0.924 0.383 0 0 0 1 79.dat
1 16 13.801 -0.029 0 0 -1 0.009 0 0.009 1 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 20.001 -0.166 0 0 -0.999 0.035 0 0.035 0.999 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 26.189 -0.52 0 0 -0.997 0.079 0 0.079 0.997 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 32.291 -1.44 0 0 -0.976 0.218 0 0.218 0.976 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 33.466 -3.175 0 0 0.866 -0.5 0 0.5 0.866 1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 33.502 -2.188 0 0 -0.675 -0.738 0 -0.738 0.675 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 38.108 1.32 0 0 -0.882 -0.471 0 -0.471 0.882 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 43.651 4.09 0 0 -0.906 -0.422 0 -0.422 0.906 -1 0 0 80.dat
1 16 50.057 6.942 0 0 -0.919 -0.394 0 -0.394 0.919 -1 0 0 80.dat
0 Start Point (10.7 0 0) Control Point 1 (70.2 0 0)
0 Control Point 2 (-1.3248 -14.3041 0) End Point (53.6532 8.4844 0)
0 Number Of Segments: 9 Curve Length: 55.8031
0 End Bezier Curve

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Hey,

this release took a little bit longer than expected, but it includes now 6 bug fixes. And three minor usability enhancements.
Some of the issues were indirectly reported by Gerald and Willy. They provided their log files and I was able to spot some critical entries.
Thank you both!


As always, you can download LDPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:
(3 new features and 6 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...use a button to re-open the 3D view (if no view is shown)
  
• ...see a warning if you try to configure a shortcut key which can't be assigned.
  
• ...start the program with a broken config file (it's not a bug, it's a feature...).
  

1. The program could break if a subfile refered to a non-existent or read-protected nested subfile in very rare cases.
   
2. There was a critical selection problem which occured if you have tried to select a single quad, but you deactivated the selection of quads before (selection filter).
   
3. It was problematic if the program could not read from the official and unoffical LDraw library folder.
   
4. It was impossible to save a file if its directory does not exist anymore.
   
5. There was a breaking bug which could deactivate the duplication check on a single file (did not affect other files).
   
6. Pressing the ESC key reset the (scale) snapping to an unexpected 2.00 value.
   

1. Download the zip-Archive
   
2. Extract the archive content to the location of your choice
   
3. On windows, double-click "run.bat" to start LDPE.
   
4. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LDPE.
   

1. On windows, double-click "update.bat" to search for updates.
   
2. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
   

• 64-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  
• Operating System (64-bit): Windows [7 or newer], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  
• RAM: 4GB
  
• Video-Memory: 1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

• Operating System (64bit): Windows 7,8,10, Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
  
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible Graphics Card
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  
• RAM: >4 GB
  
• Video-Memory: >1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  
• For a faster start, LDPartEditor and the LDraw™ library should be installed on an SSD.